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Corydon

A stock pastoral name going back to Virgil's Eclogues, long used for a lovesick swain in sentimental verse and drama; Austen's Corydon enters, announces he is interrupted, and exits — his whole part a joke on stage convention itself.

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The Mystery: An Unfinished Comedy Juvenilia · 3 mentions